A friend of mine went to Germany last winter. Her husband found a job and they left with their whole family - a boy of about 6 years old and a girl of one year old who was born there. When they left, she weighed about 60kg and was 1.70cm tall. Here they had a house in the country and a garden, he was paid quite well, they lived peacefully.
There, only the husband works and they also have the child allowance, which in Germany is decent.
They spent the first year in her sister's house where they contributed to the rent and consumption. My friend gained about 10-15 kg.
A few months ago they moved into a new house on their own. They have more space for the children, but the rent is much higher, while their income remains the same. My friend gained another 10kg and is now about 85, maybe better. No, they don't live extraordinarily well as one might think, they are quite tight with money, but they stay there for children who have a different situation at school, study in a different environment, are offered other possibilities.
The explanation: the extra fat accumulated does not necessarily depend on how much you eat, on sweets, on lack of exercise as one might think. The refugee conflict = that situation in which the person is worried about tomorrow, what we will eat, what I will feed my family with, how we will manage with money, with debts. Because of this stress, the body accumulates reserves...you don't know what tomorrow will bring, so "let's just put something else in there". Only when the stress disappears, do the kilos disappear.
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